to be annoyed that it’s pretty tricky trying to find trendy purple clothes for 11yo ds

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....other than fruit of the loom (not that there’s nothing wrong with fotl clothing, but that’s not what we’re after here.

Ds loves the colour purple. He’s 11 and loves galaxy themes, paint splash patterns, skulls etc

Up early again this morning so have had a brief look online. There’s nothing much out there.

Talking a deep purple colour, nothing plain.

So, I’ve called on the help of mumsnet to aid my search and if you can find me something super cool I’ll admit to BU

There’s a few on here that may be suitable.

www.justhype.co.uk/kids/t-shirts/hype-pink-fade-kids-t-shirt-507055

If not maybe try some skate/surf brands.

I’ll keep looking!

www.justhype.co.uk/kids/t-shirts/hype-multi-jupiter-space-kids-t-shirt-48f6ed

www.justhype.co.uk/kids/t-shirts/hype-multi-cosmo-kids-sub-t-shirt-81a57d

I'd dye some bits. I do it all the time myself. Just get a dylon (?) thing to go in the washing machine from dunelm mill or somewhere. You can use them on patterned thing things and they work really well. Annoying that you have to, but solves the problem.

Thanks, Now.

I should have mentioned he has a couple of Hype t shirts, although not the ones you’ve linked to. Like the second one

Katniss, great idea.

I’m thinking more a solid deep purple t shirt with a pattern on the front.

And maybe a hoodie and sweatshirt too, that’s when FOTL stuff starts popping up

www.riverisland.com/p/boys-red-skull-smoke-print-t-shirt-416153

www.riverisland.com/p/boys-blue-smudge-print-sweatshirt-416191

www.riverisland.com/p/boys-dark-grey-skull-print-t-shirt-416221

www.riverisland.com/p/boys-black-space-theme-print-onesie-416398

Not exactly what you want, but all a little different. Not sure how fashionable a onesie is but it looks snuggly.

Thanks Toto. Love the first t shirt, closer with the colour.

Actually the onsie link has also reminded me to add to his Christmas list. I shrunk his last one. He’d love this space themed one too

My DS asked for purple trousers for Christmas (I suspect partly for Steve-from-Minecraft cosplay, but also because he likes bright colours). Harder to find for older boys, I agree - must be proper purple not maroon or 'plum'. I found some joggers at H&m but still on the lookout, so following!

Look on 8 ball.... has the most massive range of T shirts. We had a Banksy one in purple from there....
www.8ball.co.uk/search?page=5&q=purple&type=product

Beachy, great, I’ll check out the site later, thanks.

Puddock, I imagine it possibly stemmed from Minecraft, he used to have a purple Minecraft t shirt but he’s not played on it for sometime now. He’s all Roblox. Good luck tracking down purple trousers

Try sites like Redbubble, where you can pick an image you like and then have it on any colour shirt. There’s thousands of artworks available, so you should easily be able to find, for example, a cool space design and then print it on a royal purple shirt.

Some of the surfing brands like hot tuna and fat willy have that sort of colour.

But may be deeply uncool - sorry if that's not helpful - But if they are still considered ok brands for 11/12 year olds, try them!

You could try threadless tee shirts from the US. Quality is nice but it might be a bit elderly? www.threadless.com/catalog/style,tees/type,guys/view,48/order,popular/category,Space

Isn't this a bit like it being really tricky to find trendy avocado bathroom suites?

SirFred, don’t diss the purple! Ds loves it!